All healed now (mostly) but here’s the list:

• Mild concussion
• Scratched cornea
• Cracked molar
• Bruised ribs
• Both wrists mild sprains
• Dislocated finger
• Strained knee ligaments
• Broken toe

It could have been much worse, and that’s a fact. It was a couple days before there was even any real pain. The doctor said it could be shock. The shrink said it was definitely shock.

PTSD, or a milder manifestation. Temporary.

Temporary.

Bodies heal faster.

Here’s the thing. There is no self-defense law in New York, so if you hurt a person badly while defending yourself, you’d better hope witnesses corroborate your account of the events. You’d better pray that a judge deems the amount of force you used to be proportional to the amount necessary. They have to decide if it was ‘reasonable.’ Especially if you fuck someone up badly. Badly, as in fractured cheekbone and jaw, broken collarbone and half a dozen broken ribs.

Oops.

Ain’t that a bitch though? A guy goes out and gets liquored up, packs an 8-ball up his nostrils and attacks you in a cocaine frenzy, and you end up needing a lawyer. Ain’t that a bitch?

Shit.

(more later)